Have recently installed kubunto, which is debian, but I'm a bit confused about the GUI and/or text based network card administration.

In /etc/network I see interfaces, which lists
1 of my cards, ie: the one I chose to use during the install.
Both the tulip and the e1000 driver are listed in lsmod, and I can change between them by merely swapping eth0 and eth1 in the following:

\n# The loopback network interface\nauto lo\niface lo inet loopback\n\n# This is a list of hotpluggable network interfaces.\n# They will be activated automatically by the hotplug subsystem.\nmapping hotplug\n        script grep\n        map eth0\n\n# The primary network interface\n#iface eth1 inet dhcp\niface eth0 inet dhcp\n

But I'm about to place this box on 2 nets, hard coding the IP addresses at that point, no dhcp.

"kcontrol" does not seem to find the device.

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Never mind.
I just figured it out, so I figure I'd leave this here as docs for the next person to try it.
When you use kcontrol as a regular user, it prompts for password when going into something like the network settings. But it STILL does not grant the authority.

Go to a shell, "sudo bash", and then type "kcontrol" by hand.
That works.